[PLUG] XawTV problem

Marc marcm at easystreet.com
Sat Apr 27 02:36:55 UTC 2002


Hi Sean,

Any luck with this problem?  I have the same card and the same problem.  NBC
(8) is at least one channel where I get it.  I found that Andy's suggestion to
try changing the "audio" paramter in XawTV did not seem to help.

Marc



On Fri 04/26/02  9:14, Sean, Sharon and Kyle Harbour wrote:
> Thanks, I'll give it a try tonight.
> 
> I bought an Avermedia AverTV Stereo for about $50.00 last month.
> Seems to work fine under Mandrake 8.2. I've been using it to rip VHS
> home movie tapes to mpeg1 using mp1e with fair success. A 2.3 Mb
> datarate looks decent at 320x240, eats up about a gig an hour, and
> averages about 20% CPU, with lows of 8% and highs of 48% on a 1200
> Athlon. I've been trying it out as a PVR, and it seems to work fairly
> well. For some reason I can't schedule it to record using
> /etc/crontab, but using at works. Using crontab it just creates a
> zero length file and quits. Now I just need a nice web front end for
> it that supports our local channel lineup. I've been trying some of
> the front end projects out there, but nothing decent yet.
> 
> Sean Harbour
> 
> --- Andy Boyce <xandy at linuxmail.org> wrote:
> > I'm not certian if this will work for you but try putting
> >  audio = mono | stereo | lang1 | lang2
> > in your .xawtv to set the audio mode for the given channel.
> > just out of curiosity what tv card are you using?
> > 
> > Andy
> > * Sean, Sharon and Kyle Harbour (sharbours at yahoo.com) wrote:
> > > 
> > >  I've been using XawTV lately for watching cable TV. Somehow, the
> > audio is tuned into the alternative audio channel (SAP), so on some
> > channels I get either no sound or spanish, etc. My spanish is much
> > worse than rusty, so does anybody know how I set the default audio
> > channel to not use SAP?
> > > Thanks amigos!
> > > Sean Harbour
> 
> 
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